TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindemann,Mary
TI  - Medicine and society in early modern Europe
SN  - 9780521425926 (hardback)
AV  - RA 418.3 .E8L5 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Public health
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - History, 16th Century
KW  - History, 17th Century
KW  - History, 18th Century
KW  - Public Health
KW  - history
KW  - Social Medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Sickness and health -- 2. Plagues and peoples -- 3. Learned medicine -- 4. Learning to heal -- 5. Hospitals and asylums -- 6. Health and society -- 7. Healing -- Conclusion
N2  - "Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology and ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. This second edition has been updated and revised throughout in content, style, and interpretations and new material has been added, in particular, on colonialism, exploration and women. Accessibly written and full of fascinating insights, this will be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine and will provide invaluable context for students of early modern Europe more generally"--Provided by publisher
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